Research Findings

Results from a research study funded by the Australian Rotary Health (ARH) examined around 1,000 families to understand the origins of childhood mental health disorders. The study took place before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing how the mental health of children was affected. Associate [...]

A recent study funded by Australian Rotary Health (ARH) have discovered how new digital parenting programs are able to improve the mental health of families. Half of all cases of mental health disorders develop before the age of 14, and many of them are preventable. [...]

Funding from Australian Rotary Health has supported the development and validation of a new screening tool to help professionals identify psychosocial risk during the perinatal period. The Antenatal Risk Questionnaire-Revised (ANRQ-R) was developed by ARH Geoffrey Betts Postdoctoral Fellowship recipient [...]

A new study funded by Australian Rotary Health has found an agent that could potentially be used to treat bowel cancer patients who have had the tumour spread to their liver. The liver is the most common site for colorectal cancer metastases, which occurs in [...]

Australian Rotary Health (ARH) has funded the first study to examine the mental health of asylum seeker children and their caregivers, who are living in the community following resettlement. ARH Mental Health Research Grant recipient Professor Zachary Steel from the University of New South [...]

ARH has funded a project that has proven ways to extract several types of cells from stool in hopes that it will uncover a more effective, non-invasive way to screen for bowel cancer. Bowel, colorectal or colon cancer is the second most common cause of [...]

The overuse and inappropriate use of antibiotics can result in antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Resistant organisms are developing rapidly in local communities and the need for increased public awareness and ways to control AMR is highly necessary to prevent this threat to modern medicine from growing [...]

In commemoration of Pride Month this year, Australian Rotary Health are highlighting a research publication they funded that has designed an intervention that hopes to improve the mental health of young LGBTIQ+ Australians. With 63.8% of LGBTIQ+ individuals aged 14 to 21 having been diagnosed [...]

In commemoration of NAIDOC Week, Australian Rotary Health is highlighting one of our PhD Scholars, Mandy Gibson, who published her PhD research last year on the importance of cultural connectedness for Indigenous people’s social and emotional wellbeing. Dr Gibson has proven herself as an advocate [...]

Australian Rotary Health has partially funded research in a recent journal article that analyses the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders since the introduction of the Federal Government’s Closing the Gap scheme in 2008. The narrative review was led by Dr Michelle Kennedy [...]

A recent Australian Rotary Health (ARH) funded study has identified factors that may help some children become more resilient following trauma. ARH Mental Health Research Grant recipient Professor Melissa Green and her team at the University of New South Wales examined factors associated with resilience [...]

Dr Michelle Tye A new smartphone app has been found to reduce the severity of suicidal thoughts in young people, following a research study funded by Australian Rotary Health (ARH). The LifeBuoy app is the first smartphone app that uses dialectical behavioural therapy [...]